Security camera footage shows men dressed mostly in black with covered faces hitting and kicking a man on the ground.

According to family members who spoke on condition of anonymity, 67-year-old Basim Saleh Yassin was beaten as he tried to flee the German-Palestinian-run nursery in the northern West Bank village of Deir Sharaf.

Workers at the nursery managed to escape, but Yassin, who is deaf, could not hear the warnings to evacuate.

Yassin was hospitalised with broken bones in his hand and injuries to his face, chest, and back. Four vehicles at the nursery were also set on fire.

The incident is the latest in a series of attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, which have reportedly increased since the Palestinian olive harvest in October and continued in recent months.

Israeli authorities have largely limited their response to occasional condemnations.

Radical Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the assailants as “a handful of extremists”.

Rights groups and Palestinians, however, say such attacks are widespread and have become a daily phenomenon across the territory.